Jan 5, 2020
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FAVOR THE GODS BABY
Material Me pride flags!
Emotions?? What are they??? I only know of Tilian's ethereal voice and pure melancholy
Currently Listening To: "Flutter" by Tilian
Tilian Pearson
Last Year, I had the pleasure to meet and work with Tilian Pearson of Dance Gavin Dance on my birthday, April 24th! After exactly 365 days, I received his blessing to share the images we produced that day on my tumblr! I got the ok from his management a few months earlier during his San Diego stop of his solo tour. He had just gotten off Dance Gavin Dance’s 10 anniversary tour and was now doing a quick run with DGD’s ex-clean vocalists, all of whom have solo careers and projects. Jonny Craig has SLAVES and Kurt Travis was in A LOT LIKE BIRDS. but this day was about Tilian.
He was out promoting his latest solo record, PERFECT ENEMY, released just a few months earlier. I caught up with Tilian in the bar of House of Blues with my buddy Jotham, the 16-year old son of my friends Leonard and Jerusha, who showed up dressed like a stagehand.
^ “Stage hand”
Tilian had some stuff to do, so Jotham and I waited around, chit chatting with Jonny who I had worked with a year earlier around the same venue.
When Tilian was ready, we wandered around Downtown San Diego, shooting some press for the Dance Gavin Dance singer.
We started with some basic white wall backdrop. Tilian was very gracious of his time, which was evident in the generous way he interacts with fans, and there are plenty in San Diego.
^ Top of a parking garage overlooking the streets of San Diego
This Purple wall was deemed appropriate, as this shoot happened just after Prince passed away suddenly. #PurpleRain
My thought process in these types of shoots are that I want to get a large group of differing shots to give variety in my product back to the client. Also, I like this shot in spite of the door frame not being straight. I think its unsettling but in an interesting way that doesn't detract from Tilian.
I changed the hue of purple just a bit in this one. I think I was just going for ‘pretty’.
^ “Beam me up into the MOTHERSHIP” (See what I did there?)
For more music from Tilian, check out his solo work on youtube HERE
or on Spotify. Dance Gavin Dance is also there. Go buy their latest album featuring hard hitting screams from Jon Mess, guitar licks (devotees call this genre Swancore) from the man Will Swan and, of course, the beauty of Tilian Pearson’s own vocals called MOTHERSHIP.
INSTANT GRATIFICATION never felt so good...
THIS is my favorite DGD song
Tilian - Favor The Gods
Tilian - Waste My Time
Tilian - Up In The Air